Sustainable aviation fuel: First Friday Research Highlights

Webinar series to highlight and question research areas in the sustainable aviation fuel supply chain

Join us in a series of 40 minute lunchtime talks to highlight the research areas key to supporting the creation of the UK sustainable aviation fuel supply chain.

Running on the first Friday of the month, you will hear from a selection of themed talks followed by an opportunity to ask questions and stimulate dialogue. Aimed at businesses, researchers, policy makers and investors, the research programme will support the development of collaborations and inform stakeholders of UK’s innovative research capability.

First Friday Research Highlights are being delivered by KTN’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Special Interest Group (SAF SIG), a two year programme sponsored by Innovate UK, Department for Transport and Sustainable Aviation. You can find out more about the SAF SIG and receive email and newsletter alerts on funding, news and events relating to SAF at www.safsig.co.uk.

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A list of speakers per date can be found below and will be updated regularly.

Liquid Fuel and Bioenergy Supply from CO2 Reduction (LifesCO2R): Researchers at Newcastle University are working on an innovative technology that could convert carbon dioxide into a clean fuel, reducing the amount of the harmful greenhouse gas released into the atmosphere. Funded through an aware from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) , the project aims to develop a process utilising energy from wastewater to convert waste CO2 captured from industrial processes and use it as a renewable feedstock for fuel production. The ground-breaking technology is based on the use of energy from biological and electro-chemical sources. First, the organic matter is wastewater is broken down by microbes, releasing generating a small amount of electric energy. This energy is then used to convert CO2 to formate – a derivative of formic acid. This then goes through a SimCell reactor – a specialised reactor containing micro-organisms, where formate transformed to alkanes, a liquid fuel that the research team hope could be used for transport / aviation, heating and energy storage.

Technoeconomics of bio-aviation fuels: There are a wide range of process routes for producing aviation fuels from renewable resources. The processes, efficiencies and costs are reported and compared including economies of scale and learning effects.

Low carbon aviation biofuel development: the Supergen Bioenergy hub: The Supergen bioenergy hub aims to bring together industry, academia and other stakeholders to focus on the research and knowledge challenges associated with increasing the contribution of UK bioenergy to meet strategic environmental targets in a coherent, sustainable and cost-effective manner. This presentation will outline the hub’s current work relevant to sustainable aviation and provide a platform for discussing how this matches with identified information gaps.

To listen to a webinar, you must register for the date/s you are interested in.